Publications

Barrett, L.P. & Benson-Amram, S. (In press). Can Asian elephants use water as a tool in the floating object task? Animal Behavior and Cognition.

Merkle, B.G., B. Barber, and M. Carling. 2020 in press. Drawn to Natural History: Enhancing Field Courses with Drawing and Field Journal Instruction. Natural Sciences Education. https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21688281/0/ja.

Eckrich, Carolyn A, Shannon Albeke, Elizabeth Flaherty, R Terry Bowyer, and Merav Ben-David. 2020. “RKIN: Kernel-Based Method for Estimating Isotopic Niche Size and Overlap.” JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY 89 (3): 757–71. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13159.

Jordan, Samuel E, Kyle A Palmquist, John B Bradford, and William K Lauenroth. n.d. “Soil Water Availability Shapes Species Richness in Mid-Latitude Shrub Steppe Plant Communities.” JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12874.

Walker, Richard H, Carlin E Girard, Samantha L Alford, and Annika W Walters. 2020. “Anthropogenic Land-Use Change Intensifies the Effect of Low Flows on Stream Fishes.” JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY 57 (1): 149–59. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13517.

Wurzel, Sarah, Morgan Alexander Ford, Delina Dority, and Lusha Tronstad. 2020. “Evaluating the Impact of Permethrin on Non-Target Invertebrates in an Urban Stream.” HYDROBIOLOGIA 847 (1): 91–104. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-019-04074-3.

Dugan, Jessica A, and Frank J Rahel. 2019. “Use of Natural and Added Cover Types by Game and Nongame Fishes in a Great Plains River.” NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES MANAGEMENT 39 (5): 980–88. https://doi.org/10.1002/nafm.10332.

Golcher-Benavides, Jimena, and Catherine E Wagner. 2019. “Playing out Liem’s Paradox: Opportunistic Piscivory across Lake Tanganyikan Cichlids.” AMERICAN NATURALIST 194 (2): 260–67. https://doi.org/10.1086/704169.

Hickerson, Brian T, Bryan M Maitland, and Annika W Walters. 2019. “Effects of Multiple Nonnative Fish on an Imperiled Cyprinid, Hornyhead Chub.” TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY 148 (6): 1132–45. https://doi.org/10.1002/tafs.10203.

Lindquist, Lukas W, Kyle A Palmquist, Samuel E Jordan, and William K Laurenroth. 2019. “Impacts of Climate Change on Groundwater Recharge in Wyoming Big Sagebrush Ecosystems Are Contingent on Elevation.” WESTERN NORTH AMERICAN NATURALIST 79 (1): 37–48. https://doi.org/10.3398/064.079.0104.

Louthan, Allison, Emily Valencia, Dino J Martins, Travis Guy, Jacob Goheen, Todd Palmer, and Daniel Doak. 2019. “Large Mammals Generate Both Top-down Effects and Extended Trophic Cascades on Floral-Visitor Assemblages.” JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY 35 (4): 185–98. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467419000142

Maitland, Bryan M, Brian P O’Malley, and Donald J Stewart. 2019. “Subsurface Water Piping Transports Plankton and Prevents Meromixis in a Deep Volcanic Crater Lake (Dominica, West Indies).” HYDROBIOLOGIA 839 (1): 119–30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-019-04000-7.

Mandeville, Elizabeth G, Annika W Walters, Brittany J Nordberg, Karly H Higgins, Jason C Burckhardt, and Catherine E Wagner. 2019. “Variable Hybridization Outcomes in Trout Are Predicted by Historical Fish Stocking and Environmental Context.” MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 28 (16): 3738–55. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15175.

Meier I, Joana, Rike B Stelkens, Domino A Joyce, Salome Mwaiko, Numel Phiri, Ulrich K Schliewen, Oliver M Selz, Catherine E Wagner, Cyprian Katongo, and Ole Seehausen. 2019. “The Coincidence of Ecological Opportunity with Hybridization Explains Rapid Adaptive Radiation in Lake Mweru Cichlid Fishes.” NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 10 (December). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13278-z.

Ng’weno, Caroline C, Adam T Ford, Alfred K Kibungei, and Jacob R Goheen. 2019. “Interspecific Prey Neighborhoods Shape Risk of Predation in a Savanna Ecosystem.” ECOLOGY 100 (7). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2698.

Ng’weno, Caroline C, Steven W Buskirk, Nicholas J Georgiadis, Benard C Gituku, Alfred K Kibungei, Lauren M Porensky, Daniel Rubenstein I, and Jacob R Goheen. 2019. “Apparent Competition, Lion Predation, and Managed Livestock Grazing: Can Conservation Value Be Enhanced?” FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 7 (April). https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00123.

Brock, Chad D, Diana Rennison, Thor Veen, and Daniel I Bolnick. 2018. “Opsin Expression Predicts Male Nuptial Color in Threespine Stickleback.” ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 8 (14): 7094–7102. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4231.

Brock, Chad D, and Catherine E Wagner. 2018. “The Smelly Path to Sympatric Speciation?” MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 27 (21): 4153–56. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14845.

Burrows, Andrea, Meghan Lockwood, Mike Borowczak, Edward Janak, and Brian Barber. 2018. “Integrated STEM: Focus on Informal Education and Community Collaboration through Engineering.” EDUCATION SCIENCES 8 (1). https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci8010004.

Carlisle, Jason D, Anna D Chalfoun, Kurt T Smith, and Jeffrey L Beck. 2018. “Nontarget Effects on Songbirds from Habitat Manipulation for Greater Sage-Grouse: Implications for the Umbrella Species Concept.” CONDOR 120 (2): 439–55. https://doi.org/10.1650/CONDOR-17-200.1.

Coverdale, Tyler C, Jacob R Goheen, Todd M Palmer, and Robert M Pringle. 2018. “Good Neighbors Make Good Defenses: Associational Refuges Reduce Defense Investment in African Savanna Plants.” ECOLOGY 99 (8): 1724–36. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2397.

Doenz, Carmela J, David Bittner, Pascal Vonlanthen, Catherine E Wagner, and Ole Seehausen. 2018. “Rapid Buildup of Sympatric Species Diversity in Alpine Whitefish.” ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 8 (18): 9398–9412. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4375.

Dudenhoeffer, Megan, and Anne-Marie C Hodge. 2018. “Opposing Forces of Seed Dispersal and Seed Predation by Mammals for an Invasive Cactus in Central Kenya.” AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 56 (2): 179–84. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.12504.

Karvonen, Anssi, Catherine E Wagner, Oliver M Selz, and Ole Seehausen. 2018. “Divergent Parasite Infections in Sympatric Cichlid Species in Lake Victoria.” JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 31 (9): 1313–29. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13304.

Louthan, Allison M, Robert M Pringle, Jacob R Goheen, Todd M Palmer, William F Morris, and Daniel F Doak. 2018. “Aridity Weakens Population-Level Effects of Multiple Species Interactions on Hibiscus Meyeri.” PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 115 (3): 543–48. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1708436115.

Meier, Joana Isabel, David Alexander Marques, Catherine Elise Wagner, Laurent Excoffier, and Ole Seehausen. 2018. “Genomics of Parallel Ecological Speciation in Lake Victoria Cichlids.” MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 35 (6): 1489–1506. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msy051.

Wagner, Catherine E. 2018. “Improbable Big Birds.” SCIENCE 359 (6372): 157–59. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aar4796.

Walker, Richard H, Bryan M Maitland, Tayler N LaSharr, Michael N Rosing, and Merav Ben-David. 2018. “Fate of Juvenile Salmonids Stranded in Off-Channel Pools: Implications for Nutrient Transfers.” AQUATIC SCIENCES 80 (1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-017-0562-z.

Alston, Jesse M, Janet E Millard, Jessica A Rick, Brandon W Husby, and Laurel A Mundy. 2017. “Observations of Notable Parental Behaviours of Northern Spotted Owls (Strix Occidentalis Caurina).” CANADIAN FIELD-NATURALIST 131 (3): 225–27. https://doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v131i3.1874.

Brock, Chad D, Molly E Cummings, and Daniel I Bolnick. 2017. “Phenotypic Plasticity Drives a Depth Gradient in Male Conspicuousness in Threespine Stickleback, Gasterosteus Aculeatus.” EVOLUTION 71 (8): 2022–36. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13282.

Craig, Laura S, Julian D Olden, Angela H Arthington, Sally Entrekin, Charles P Hawkins, John J Kelly, Theodore A Kennedy, Bryan M. Maitland et al. 2017. “Meeting the Challenge of Interacting Threats in Freshwater Ecosystems: A Call to Scientists and Managers.” ELEMENTA-SCIENCE OF THE ANTHROPOCENE 5 (December). https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.25.

Kimiti, David W, Anne-Marie C Hodge, Jeffrey E Herrick, Adam W Beh, and Laurie E Abbott. 2017. “Rehabilitation of Community-Owned, Mixed-Use Rangelands: Lessons from the Ewaso Ecosystem in Kenya.” PLANT ECOLOGY 218 (1, SI): 23–37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-016-0691-9.

Mahler, D Luke, Marjorie G Weber, Catherine E Wagner, and Travis Ingram. 2017. “Pattern and Process in the Comparative Study of Convergent Evolution.” AMERICAN NATURALIST 190 (1): S13–28. https://doi.org/10.1086/692648.

Meier, Joana I, David A Marques, Salome Mwaiko, Catherine E Wagner, Laurent Excoffier, and Ole Seehausen. 2017. “Ancient Hybridization Fuels Rapid Cichlid Fish Adaptive Radiations.” NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 8 (February). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14363.

Meier, Joana I, Vitor C Sousa, David A Marques, Oliver M Selz, Catherine E Wagner, Laurent Excoffier, and Ole Seehausen. 2017. “Demographic Modelling with Whole-Genome Data Reveals Parallel Origin of Similar Pundamilia Cichlid Species after Hybridization.” MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 26 (1, SI): 123–41. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13838.

Pandit, Shubha N, Bryan M Maitland, Laxmi K Pandit, Mark S Poesch, and Eva C Enders. 2017. “Climate Change Change Risks, Extinction Debt, and Conservation Implications for a Threatened Freshwater Fish: Carmine Shiner (Notropis Percobromus).” SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 598 (November): 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.03.228.

Rader, Jonathan A, Seth D Newsome, Pablo Sabat, R Terry Chesser, Michael E Dillon, and Carlos Martinez del Rio. 2017. “Isotopic Niches Support the Resource Breadth Hypothesis.” JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY 86 (2): 405–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12629.

Veen, Thor, Brock, Chad D, Diana Rennison, and Daniel Bolnick. 2017. “Plasticity Contributes to a Fine-Scale Depth Gradient in Sticklebacks’ Visual System.” MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 26 (16): 4339–50. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14193.

Wagner, C E, and E G Mandeville. 2017. “Speciation, Species Persistence and the Goals of Studying Genomic Barriers to Gene Flow.” JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 30 (8): 1512–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13112.

Weber, Marjorie G, Catherine E Wagner, Rebecca J Best, Luke J Harmon, and Blake Matthews. 2017. “Evolution in a Community Context: On Integrating Ecological Interactions and Macroevolution.” TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 32 (4): 291–304. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2017.01.003.

Hope, Andrew G, Jason L Malaney, Kayce C Bell, Fernando Salazar-Miralles, Andreas S Chavez, Brian R Barber, and Joseph A Cook. 2016. “Revision of Widespread Red Squirrels (Genus: Tamiasciurus) Highlights the Complexity of Speciation within North American Forests.” MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION 100 (July): 170–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.04.014.

Maitland, Bryan M, Mark Poesch, Axel E Anderson, and Shubha N Pandit. 2016. “Industrial Road Crossings Drive Changes in Community Structure and Instream Habitat for Freshwater Fishes in the Boreal Forest.” FRESHWATER BIOLOGY 61 (1): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.12671.

Marques, David A, Kay Lucek, Joana I Meier, Salome Mwaiko, Catherine E Wagner, Laurent Excoffier, and Ole Seehausen. 2016. “Genomics of Rapid Incipient Speciation in Sympatric Threespine Stickleback.” PLOS GENETICS 12 (2). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.100588.

Rio, Carlos Martinez del, and Scott R McWilliams. 2016. “How Essential Fats Affect Bird Performance and Link Aquatic Ecosystems and Terrestrial Consumers.” PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 113 (43): 11988–90. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614106113.

Smith, Kurt T, Jeffrey L Beck, Tony W Mong, and Frank C Blomquist. 2016. “IDENTIFICATION OF COLUMBIAN SHARP-TAILED GROUSE LEK SITES IN SOUTH CENTRAL WYOMING.” WESTERN NORTH AMERICAN NATURALIST 76 (1): 135–41. https://doi.org/10.3398/064.076.0115.

Souza, Lara, Tamara Jane Zelikova, and Nathan J Sanders. 2016. “Bottom-up and Top-down Effects on Plant Communities: Nutrients Limit Productivity, but Insects Determine Diversity and Composition.” OIKOS 125 (4): 566–75. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.02579.

Zero, Victoria H, and Melanie A Murphy. 2016. “An Amphibian Species of Concern Prefers Breeding in Active Beaver Ponds.” ECOSPHERE 7 (5). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1330.

Maitland, Bryan M, Steven J Cooke, and Mark Poesch. 2015. “Finding the Path to a Successful Graduate and Research Career: Advice for Early Career Researchers.” FISHERIES 40 (8): 399–403. https://doi.org/10.1080/03632415.2015.1065253.

Tewksbury, Joshua J, John G T Anderson, Jonathan D Bakker, Timothy J Billo, Peter W Dunwiddie, Martha J Groom, Stephanie E Hampton, et al. 2014. “Natural History’s Place in Science and Society.” BIOSCIENCE 64 (4): 300–310. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biu032.

Mansouri, S, J Houbraken, R A Samson, J C Frisvad, M Christensen, D E Tuthill, S Koutaniemi, A Hatakka, and P Lankinen. 2013. “Penicillium Subrubescens, a New Species Efficiently Producing Inulinase.” ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY 103 (6): 1343–57. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-013-9915-3.